Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cunghill, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cunghill
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.10944, -8.65220
- SMR number
- SL032-095001-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In pasture, on the S-facing slope of a ridge. A roughly circular area (31m N-S; 27.7m E-W) defined by a flat-topped earthen bank (Wth 2.5m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 1.8m) E-N and by a scarp elsewhere. An external dry flat-bottomed fosse (Wth 5.7m; D 0.3m) is evident all round, with a short section of an outer earthen bank (ext. H 0.6m) along the SE arc. A field boundary respects the edge of the fosse SW-E. The interior slopes gently down to SE and the S portion is raised to compensate for the hillslope. There is a souterrain (SL032-095002-) in the W half of the interior. A lane is indicated skirting the S arc on the 1838 OS 6-inch map.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005).
Date of upload: 18 January 2008
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.